About the role
Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality solutions within
the team's service area, with attention to scalability, availability, and maintainability; build deep familiarity with the systems you own and apply best practices to keep code extensible and operable. Lead technical discussions for features in
the team's area of responsibility; produce design docs/proposals as needed; and validate approaches through targeted experiments and prototypes, incorporating stakeholder and customer feedback. Lead by example by writing clean, defensive, maintainable code and mentoring engineers within the immediate team on implementation details, debugging techniques, and product/service expertise. Provide technical leadership in code reviews to ensure changes meet GitHub and team quality standards (correctness, security, reliability, diagnosability, and maintainability), and that code is ready to merge and operate at the expected scale. Partner with engineering and product stakeholders to define
requirements, identify dependencies, break work into deliverable milestones, and provide estimates and risk/impact tradeoffs to support prioritization and successful delivery. Participate in the on-call rotation for
the team's services; act as a first responder for your area of ownership; troubleshoot complex live-site issues using logs/telemetry; drive mitigations and safe deployments (including rollback plans); and write postmortems that result in measurable follow-up improvements. Model engineering excellence by improving developer workflows (tooling, automation, and repeatable quality checks), sharing learnings from investigations and incidents, and contributing to a collaborative team culture with strong ownership and inclusive communication. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. These
requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Understanding of production system monitoring and observability. Ability to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs. Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices. Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality product.
About Swiftkey
SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages. SwiftKey was founded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Job details
Salary
$119,800 - $234,700
Location
Redmond, WA
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.